Safety Pins's Blog – July 2010 Archive (7)

Normally for our tattoo of the week, we feature one person in the community who has a cool story about their tattoos. We've had somepretty cool submissionsso far, and thank everyone who is ballzy enough to submit their tattoo images and stories. This week we decided to switch it up a bit and featured a collection of some dope photos we found on the internet of beautiful black…

Kelis is releasing an album this summer and doing the usual press tour to spread the word. She even made time to stop by MTV and example/justify her fashion through the years. Some of the looks even she had to laugh at but still managed to make a great point, you will never have regrets if you wear what feels good at the time. And if skin tight pink spandex catsuits with liberty spike head piece holding on rat tail that reaches your ankles feels good, bitch do…

This week's tattoo feature is of a chick we met while on the Afro-punk 2009 National Tour in San Francisco. Our feature, Alex Scott, is a 25-year-old lifeguard who jams out in her spare time. She currently has eight tattoos with plans to get more in the future. She got her latest ink of the words "readymade" after seeing her ex-boyfriend with another girl. Yep, tattooscanactually fill the…

This week, we are stoked to feature Deekah Wyatt. Deekah is a goldy locked Detroit beauty who has 11 tattoos, all with symbolism of spirituality, freedom, and soul. She started getting tattoos when she was around 21, the perfect age to start your ink up, and she hasn't looked back yet. Deekah has the illest ankh back tattoo that we've seen in a while, and we just had to show it off. Check her out and…

One of the summer looks that seems to have everyone all excited is the glammed out kente rockabilly design. The best designs on a everyday wear level that I found has been from designer, Maya Amina Lake. Her line is called Boxing Kitten. Not only does she use her prints for the every day look, but she even has celebs like Alicia Keys, the Knowles sisters, Estelle, Jack Davey, Goapele…

About a month ago, we asked people to submit photos of their tattoos for us to feature once a week on afropunk.com. Many brave submissions came forward for their chance to have some face time on the site, thus reminding us that tattoo ink is such a nice touch to brown skin. With the collected submissions, each week we will feature the best and/or most interesting tattoo that we think you may like to see with a little information about the person featured. And it's not…